rude drivers nope. rude TRUCKERS... 1963

Dave Head

DO you really think that all those trucks that you see in your town, NEVER leave town? How many of them do you think came off the interstate from somewhere FAR FAR away? Do you really want the Railroad to get into the freight Redistribution business.. they can barely keep up with their freight demands now.

Here is how the system usually work now: Truck get loaded. Drives to location. Unloads.

Your brilliant idea: Truck gets loaded. Goes to rail yard. Truck Unloads. Freight gets sorted according to destination with other freight going to same location, if less than a train load, freight stays at station until an amount of freight get accumulated to make the trip by train profitable. Train Loads. Drives across country. Train gets unloaded. Truck get loaded. Delivers to store. Unloads.

How many jobs did you create with your idea... good job on creating all the jobs. Who's going to do the work? Not out of work truck drivers.. we'll be busy driving all the local trucks around.... now with ALL these extra people working the freight, what will it cost consumers to buy these rail freight products. Have you ever heard the phrase that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Same effect here. The most efficient and cheapest way to haul freight is to do it as directly as possible. That means one truck to load, deliver, and unload.

Rail can not and will not ever be able to do what trucks do. and until they have rail going EVERYWHERE, and enough engines to take freight exactly where it needs to go WHEN it needs to be there, they never will never be able to do what trucks do.

Did I ask about oil going to the refineries? Nope... I asked about gasoline... is your Local Gas Station located right next to the refinery? How far is the refinery from your local gas station? Would you consider that distance to be long haul or short haul? (If your curious about how you can find where the gas trucks load at... go ask, or just read the truck door, the home location of the trucking company is somewhat close to the location of the refinery.)

Maybe we need refineries in every town. Pipes delivering raw crude to every refinery. Put up a dissolution house in every community to provide beef, another one for poultry, two more for sheep and pigs. If the farmers in New York and California can't raise enough grains to make bread to feed their populations... Tough poo right (Hey, I am starting to like this idea.. Up all night because of the smells of farm life, and oil refinement, along with train whistles going off at every intersection, and not a loaf of bread to be found for miles, all because I don't live in Iowa... where do I sign up for this).

You want to get rid of Long Haul trucks... you have to choose More plants that no one wants in their back yard going up EVERYWHERE, or Rail going EVERYWHERE. There is no other choice to do this economically.

You really don't know anything about logistics do you.

A question you totally avoided.

Another question you completely avoided

Yet another question you avoided. again, how short is a long haul. is 60 miles from West Phoenix to East Mesa long haul?

Distance from West Phoenix to East Mesa 60 Miles... put it on a plane? A PLANE? Every time someone pays their electric bill by mail, it needs to go by PLANE? Luckily for me I don't live in Metro phoenix, I live in Montana.. My electric bill goes from my town to Billings.. a little over 200 miles away. Now, if the 1600 people that live in my town all pay the electric bill ON THE SAME DAY... the stamps come to $592. Now what about the couple letters going to say... I don't know... Stacey Montana, a town who's post office is literally located in a trailer house. Middle of no where who's going to fly those letter for 74 cents? Or should the US Mail just wait till there is enough mail to justify the trip... weren't you JUST NOW unpleasant womaning about how slow the mail is? Let me check:

anyway.

How much slower do you thing the mail will run if the USPS sits on mail until its profitable for it to be flown to its destination. Or how much do you want postage to cost?

Everything else... Greyhound buses? Sports Cars? These devices carry things between cities... Greyhound hauls a LOT of US Mail to small communities. A lot of courier's use small cars some of them are quite sporty. Let's get rid of them. And since we can't easily tell the difference between a regular car and a car hauling freight... get all cars off the interstates.

They did... it's called the Eisenhower interstate system. They did agree to finance it, it was done with taxes, and it was originally just for Commercial Freight and mil vehicles.

You know nothing of history, you know nothing of logistics, you know nothing of freight costs versus shelf pricing, you know nothing about oil refinery, you know nothing about how food gets to the grocery stores, you know nothing of efficiency, to sum it up, you know nothing about the subject you are trying to write about.

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